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Industrial Uses

Among warehouse/storage uses, the largest share was for general storage and these
IBs were mainly located in Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung and Eastern Kowloon. For the more
specialised logistic warehouses, they were more often found in Tuen Mun, Kwai Chung and

Shek Mun.

Office in IBs

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Some 17.6% of the IB floorspace (about 4.79M m ) were occupied by units solely as office
without ancillary workshop, warehouse or other industrial uses. These office premises were
mainly located in Eastern Kowloon, Cheung Sha Wan, Hung Hom and Chai Wan Kok.

‘Others’ and Emerging Uses

Shop and services uses held a notable share of about 3.2% of the total IB floorspace,
mainly located in Eastern Kowloon and Cheung Sha Wan. There was also a marked
increase by about 85.7% and 25% in floorspace occupied by data centre and research
and design centre respectively. Data centre in IBs contributed some 52% of the total data

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centre floorspace supply in Hong Kong . Floorspace occupied by place of entertainment
and recreational related usages had doubled since 2014 Area Assessments (Figure 3).

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Figure 3: Breakdown of ‘Others’ Uses in IBs (GFA in m )

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3. The total supply of data centre in Hong Kong is 743 000 m . Source: “Update on Data Centre Development in
Hong Kong” LC Paper No. CB(1)644/19-20(01).

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